10. Lošinjski dani bioetike - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

stvarne svrhe za čovjeka. Najopasnijim se nadaje gubitak svijesti o istinskom
značenju čovjeka i višem smislu života. Ono najvrednije u svijetu
ljudskog opstanka izloženo je diktatu logike biološkog redukcionizma,
lišavano svake duhovne okomice i ontološke hijerarhije bića. Izgleda da
čovjek, nakon zaborava Boga, živi opasni zaborav sebe, da gubi sposobnost
da ozbiljuje puninu svoje ljudskosti i da se punoljetno brine o svom
dostojanstvu. Zaboravio je da je on smisao Zemlje i svrha života na njoj.
U radu autor obrazlaže stav po kojem bi središnja zadaća suvremenog
filozofskog, teološkog i, napose, etičkog mišljenja trebalo biti rehabilitiranje
svijesti o fundamentalnom značenju čovjeka i višem smislu života. On
argumentira zbog čega bi to trebala biti i središnja zadaća bioetike.
BIOETHICS IN THE AGE OF OBLIVION OF MAN
Our world has reached the most critical phase of its existence. The
nature, man and life are endangered to death; dangers and threats are suspending
the hope and suppressing the possibility for salvation. The fate
of the world is decided and it is governed by intellectually unenlightened,
immoral and greedy people who act as if they are allowed everything that
is possible. Science and technology continue to develop without any restraints
or moral control, and disregard the real purpose of man. However,
the most dangerous seems to be the loss of consciousness about the true
meaning of man and the higher meaning of life. Most valuable aspects in
the world of human existence are exposed to the dictates of logic, biological
reductionism, being deprived of spiritual axis and ontological hierarchy
of being. It seems that the man, after the oblivion of God, is dangerously
starting to forget oneself, to lose the ability to actualize the fullness of her/
his own humanity and to maturely care about her/his dignity. The man has
forgotten that he is the meaning of Earth and the purpose of life on it.
The author elaborates on his position that the central task of contemporary
philosophical, theological and, especially, ethical thinking should be
the rehabilitation of awareness of the fundamental importance of man and
the higher meaning of life. He argues why that should be the central task
of bioethics.
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